Andrew Borg Cardona

Andrew Borg Cardona

Every so often, such as appeared on the page where my column used to appear on Saturday in the print Times, the discussion about whether we need a new Constitution raises its head above the parapet. Sometimes, the discussion is provoked by those...

Andrew Borg Cardona

Tennis fans will recognise John McEnroe's petulant outburst when some line judge or other had called his ball out, or in, or whatever, nasal whine and all.
Never, though, has such an ejaculation been more apt than today, Thursday, April 28 at 5pm...

Andrew Borg Cardona

Premier Joe's Minions and Trolls have been delighting themselves, and no-one else, by crowing that the Panama Papers have burst the Nationalists' bubble.
Their argument seems to be that since Panama Hats and KtheK haven't been alleged to have any...

Andrew Borg Cardona

I promised, on my FaceBook page, that I wasn't going to blog about the surreal contributions from Government members in the debate in the House last Monday. Being a man of my word, I won't, except to remark on the Loyal Members of the Government's...

Andrew Borg Cardona

No doubt on Monday, Premier Joe will stride into the House brimming with confidence and sporting the smirk that has become his USP - a "Unique Selling Point". The fact that Premier Muscat's is a smirk that borders on being arrogant in the extreme...

Andrew Borg Cardona

It was part of folklore that Minister Evarist Bartolo, in another life, was Mary l-Maws (or was it Marija?) on Labour's weekly paper, KullHadd. Whoever it was, he or she used to delight in getting at people on the other side of the political...

Andrew Borg Cardona

It was a toss-up between The Clash and Queen but even though it seems to be pretty much a foregone conclusion that Premier Joe has done his electoral arithmetic and concluded that it's time for PanamaHats to be chucked over the side, there's still...

Andrew Borg Cardona

Premier Joseph Muscat, late on Wednesday evening, was reported to have said that he gets it. All that he gets, it need hardly be said, is the extent to which Panamagate is harming his party with the electorate. Premier Muscat, it is now ultra...

Andrew Borg Cardona

"M'learned colleague" Charlon Gouder appears to have been chosen to react to my Opinion Piece about the PN Loan Initiative. His piece needs some response.
Clearly, Gouder's forma mentis is that the initiative is wrong principally because I find...

Andrew Borg Cardona

This question needs to be answered.
In the light of the revelations - now also in the international press - from the Mossack Fonseca leak, are you comfortable with the standards of governance adopted by Premier Joseph Muscat?
Speaking for myself,...